Note 2. To the Subsection “Characteristics of Hegel’s Logic”
Hegel stated the following in the introduction to The Science of Logic: “One may therefore express it thus: that this content shows forth God as He is in His eternal essence before the creation of nature and of a finite spirit.” “The Science of Logic,” in The Philosophy of Hegel, trans. W. H. Johnson and L. G. Struthers, ed. Carl J. Friedrich (New York: The Modern Library, 1954), 186.